The exit paths are becoming worn. I still want to see the headlines of companies moving headquarters to Cali. I think you would have to go to the 70's archives to find any. The problems are obvious, as are the fixes...
Biz & Tech
Tech pipeline to Texas: Tax money, people flow out of Bay Area
Despite being in the heart of Silicon Valley, Vasili Triant couldn?t keep his midsize cloud-computing company, LiveOps Cloud, staffed. Jobs would open, but not enough qualified applicants would apply. Those hired often wouldn?t last a year before being poached by bigger firms that promised higher salaries and more lavish perks.
In September, after more than a decade in the Bay Area, the company relocated its headquarters to a suburb of Austin, Texas ? a move growing common among its peers.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Tech-pipeline-to-Texas-Tax-money-employees-flow-6791524.php
Misguided State Policies Lead To More Companies Leaving California
The list of businesses abandoning California for more hospitable business environments reads like a roll call of top companies. Toyota is in the process of leaving Torrance and will complete the move of its U.S. headquarters to Dallas by the end of 2017. Also having left for Dallas is Jacobs Engineering Group, $6.3 billion firm formerly based in Pasadena that has more than 230 offices across the world, employs 60,000 and generates $12 billion in annual revenue.
Other companies that have left, or are pricing moving van rates, are Nestle (leaving Glendale to reboot its U.S. headquarters in Rosslyn, Va.), Nissan North America (left for Nashville a decade before Carl?s Jr. did), Jamba Juice (traded San Francisco for Frisco, Texas), Occidental Petroleum (prefers Houston over Westwood for its headquarters), Numira Biosciences (Irvine, no ? Salt Lake City, yes) and Omnitracs, a software firm (goodbye San Diego, hello Dallas).
From 2007 through 2015, as many as 9,000 companies have left California, according to Joe Vranich, president of Spectrum Location Solutions in Irvine. And no one should wonder why. Just by simply putting California behind them, these companies are saving 20 percent to 35 percent a year in operating costs, Vranich says.
http://www.foxandhoundsdaily.com/2017/04/misguided-state-policies-lead-companies-leaving-california/